Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It’s great when you’re a good shot with an AK-47, but it’s about being clever.
I’m not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
I thought the marketing was really smart and really clever and unique at the time. It positioned ‘Saw’ as a horror film that was different from the other horror films that were in the crowded marketplace.
What I liked about ‘Get Out,’ which is so rare, is that there’s just as much focus on getting to know and care about these characters on top of the film being clever and scary.
What does ‘Ngaio’ mean? I don’t know. Like many Maori words, it has a number of meanings – clever, light on the water, a little bug – but I don’t know which my parents had in mind.
The real point of me isn’t that I’m good looking. It’s that I’m clever. I’ve got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.
I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That’ll be the case with ‘Matilda.’ It’s such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.
You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
To me, Stephen was my husband and the father of my children; one does not say to one’s husband, ‘Oh, you’re so clever! I must worship the ground under your feet, or in this case, wheels.’
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.
I’ve always been accused of being too clever for my own good.
I think I’m quite a clever player and that I realise there are times when I can be offensive but others when I must be more compact and work for the team, because that is what matters.
I’m sorry to say it, but we have to be more arrogant and more streetwise because we are coming up against some great teams who have that streetwise mentality. They bring their play into it: you do what you have to do to win a game. Simple as that. Be streetwise and clever.
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
I love Sara Bareilles. She’s just so clever. I wish I were her. She’s so awesome.
I wasn’t into making classmates laugh – or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I wasn’t too clever but I wasn’t in the bottom group. I wasn’t loud but I wasn’t quiet. I wasn’t a bully and I wasn’t bullied.
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you’d thought of.
Take male strategies for success in the world. If you’ve got all the advantages, if you’re attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
A lot of people don’t know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.
I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
Akhilesh Yadav played a clever game by joining hands with BSP so that he can save his skin and use Dalit votes to win a few seats.
I wish I could say I was wise and clever, but I’m really not.
I left the Army in 2000 and went into industry before I started appearing on TV in 2003. My best job there was on a series called ‘Crafty Tricks Of War’ for the BBC. I loved that because it celebrated how clever and inventive people are and the ingenuity that goes into solving problems.
I’m not the sort of comedian who wants to make audiences think about politics. I’m not clever in that way.
The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That’s when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you’re clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn’t know were possible.
I like my villains clever, deep, and driven by pure evil.
Sometimes I can switch into clever mode.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the ‘Three Stooges’ were geniuses. They’d have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.
Too clever is dumb.
I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them – and for my daughters, too.
Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They’re my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He’s just really cool.
I love Simone Rocha. I just think she’s really clever.
The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.
DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.
Barca play a really clever type of football, close together with everyone at a high level technically.
The fact is I’m choosy, but mainly about a man’s character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don’t even mind if he’s not very good-looking.
But I don’t sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.
I’m not clever. But I am level-headed, hard-working, dogged.
I have clients from 19 to 80 years old, and the way I work means that they can take the same dress and shorten, lengthen it, remove the sleeve, adjust details – and make it their own. They get a piece that is right for them. It’s a clever way of shopping in this economy.
The differences between the top teams in Euro 2000 are so minimal that I think you have to be very clever in defence and stop your opponents getting opportunities.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Ancelotti is very clever, very clever.
I wasn’t the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn’t clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead.
I find strong roles really interesting. Usually, that means the character is also clever.
It’s weird; my fascination with tech was kind of combined with the fact that my parents would never pay for anything. It got me more involved because I would have to find clever ways to get things for free.
Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.
Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
I don’t like being called ‘macho.’ Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he’s smart. That’s smart in both senses: elegant and clever.
I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
I’m not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.
I’m just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I’m not that clever.
That’s the only show where, if anyone says to me, ‘Is there a role you want to play?’, I say, yeah, I want to play Sweeney Todd. Stephen Sondheim’s so clever; it’s a profoundly brilliant piece of work.
Social media teams can and do launch clever campaigns, but game-changing Social Business initiatives are typically driven by management teams.
So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl’s very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can’t they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
She grounded me. I have become very disciplined now. I would never have written the books without her. Definitely the cleverest thing I ever did was to marry Santa. Maybe it’s the only clever thing I did.
